Post by FuzzyWarbles on Aug 25, 2013 23:50:54 GMT -5

What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.

Post by Dave Maynar on Aug 26, 2013 7:08:30 GMT -5

Edit: Oh my word. I just made it to when she starts singing in the performance. I am already so confused. Is something wrong with her tongue? What the f*ck is up with the bears? Why is the bear she emerged from from the space and/or the future? So many questions!

What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.

Post by Dave Maynar on Aug 26, 2013 8:27:26 GMT -5

Is that what the kids want these days? Weird faces and out of control tongues?

I know! Where are the furry Ugg boots and capes? This isn't music!

Seriously though, Miley Cyrus was only part of the terrible of this performance. Robin Thicke's Beetlejuice suit, the mishmash of craft projects disguised as set design at the end, the repeated shots of celebs not giving a f*ck in the crowd. It was so bad on a number of levels.

Post by FuzzyWarbles on Aug 26, 2013 9:27:53 GMT -5

What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.

Post by FuzzyWarbles on Aug 26, 2013 9:37:28 GMT -5

What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.

Post by FuzzyWarbles on Aug 26, 2013 9:51:14 GMT -5

What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.

Post by tackitt on Aug 26, 2013 10:17:10 GMT -5

Seriously though, Miley Cyrus was only part of the terrible of this performance. Robin Thicke's Beetlejuice suit, the mishmash of craft projects disguised as set design at the end, the repeated shots of celebs not giving a f*ck in the crowd. It was so bad on a number of levels.

I felt so sorry for Kendrick throughout that entire performance. "Come do your guest verse, they said. It'll be fun, they said. We'll give you 50,000, they said." He had to have questioned how he possibly got in the middle of that clusterquack of crazy white people...and 2 Chainz.

Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Aug 26, 2013 10:30:16 GMT -5

the New York Times didn't like it:

"Mr. Timberlake was on trend in way, though: this was a banner year for clumsy white appropriation of black culture – the shambolic, trickster-esque performance by Ms. Cyrus, to whom no one has apparently said “no” for the last six months or so, which included plenty of lewdness and a molestation of Robin Thicke; the ubiquity of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, the clumsy and intensely popular hip-hop duo, who were recipients of three awards, including best hip-hop video. They also performed “Same Love,” their gay rights anthem, with the singer Mary Lambert, though when Jennifer Hudson emerged to duet the last part of the song with Ms. Lambert, it felt like a sort of apologetic compensation for the night’s whitewash. (For good measure, Eminem announced the details of his new album in commercials sponsored by Beats By Dre.)"

Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Aug 26, 2013 10:43:00 GMT -5

it felt like a sort of apologetic compensation for the night’s whitewash.

2Chainz and Kanye. Now white guys.

The award for artist to watch was won by Austin Mahone, a ninth-generation Xerox of Justin Bieber. The British boy band One Direction won best song of the summer, a fourth-quarter fabrication of a category dreamed up by marketing executives. But even an award that fake shouldn’t have gone to One Direction over Daft Punk or Mr. Thicke, who was nominated for four awards for his resilient, buoyant “Blurred Lines,” and was both shut out and tasked with playing straight man to Ms. Cyrus’s wily narcissism during his performance.

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There was also a pair of strong hip-hop performances by Kanye West, who emoted largely in silhouette, and Drake, who both sang and rapped.

Post by FuzzyWarbles on Aug 26, 2013 10:45:15 GMT -5

Thirty Seconds To Mars took home a Best Rock Video statuette for "Up in the Air." The band beat out Imagine Dragons for "Radioactive," Fall Out Boy for "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)," Mumford & Sons for "I Will Wait," and Vampire Weekend for "Diane Young."

What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.